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The row centres on whether the SAMA board, elected for a three-year term in 2018, is legally constituted in terms of its Memorandum of Incorporation.
ANGELIQUE COETZEE

South African Medical Association suspends Western Cape branch

Disputes over board elections and trade union fees threaten the 96-year-old NPO for medical professionals

  • Chris Bateman
8 min read
Proactive: Teachers and support staff queue for the Covid-19 vaccination at Universitas Hospital in Bloemfontein in the face of the more transmittable Delta variant. (Mlungisi Louw/Gallo Images/Volksblad)
ANGELIQUE COETZEE

Health department scraps quarantine, isolation requirements for asymptomatic Covid-19 contacts

The government has also started administering J&J booster shots from 24 December and will roll out Pfizer boosters from 28 December

  • Marcia Zali
2 min read
Nurses treat patients infected with Covid-19 at ward number 20 of the Tembisa Hospital in Tembisa, on March 2, 2021. (Photo by Guillem Sartorio / AFP) (Photo by GUILLEM SARTORIO/AFP via Getty Images)
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Covid-19 hospital admissions on the rise in Gauteng as fourth wave looms

Most of the admissions are of unvaccinated and younger people, but there are fears of a spread to older people

  • Marcia Zali
5 min read
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Teething problems in first week of national vaccine drive see fewer jabs

More than 120 000 people got their jabs in phase 2 of the nationwide Covid-19 vaccination campaign

  • Eunice Masson
2 min read
ANGELIQUE COETZEE

‘Doctors’ wives’ jump Covid queue

Private doctors and civilians have been exploiting gaps in the public health system to get vaccinated

  • Chris Bateman
4 min read
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Sisonke J&J urges health personnel to remain calm as Covid vials run low at some hospitals

Health workers have been prioritised and the electronic data system tightened between the arrival of the first and second batches of vials

  • Chris Bateman
4 min read